There is a high fixed production cost associated with creating a DVD/Blu-Ray master disc for duplication. If a blu-ray movie sells a tenth as much as a DVD, the fixed cost per disc is ten times as high, and the blu-ray production cost is higher then DVD.
Plus blank blu-ray discs are significantly more expensive then DVDs sine it is still new and licensing fees are higher. Some duplication company on the web I found mentioned in their faq's that plastic blu-ray cases cost 5 times as much as DVD due to limited supply.
That's why blu-ray discs cost more.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
